Intro to Nursing Exam 1 review – UTA
Questions And Actual Detailed Answers.
describe the importance of improving academic skills for aspiring nurses - Answer Improving
academic skills allows for nurses to reduce stress, read efficiently, critically think, create
organized notes, and recall and apply information for exams and clinical use
understand the benefits of reflective journaling in learning - Answer reflective learning allows
you to summarize what you learned, how you could improve for net time, and if you will change
your study habits in the future
identify scheduling techniques to aid in time management - Answer create a workable
schedule. Allow 1 to 2 hours of study for each hour of lecture. for online courses, plan study
time. take exercise and refreshing breaks after certain period of studying. plan for the
unexpected and take time out for R&R to study if needed
recognize the wide range of settings and roles in which todays registered nurses practice,
including advanced practice nursing roles - Answer hospital, facilities, clinics, homes, schools,
hospice homes, private practice, nursing homes, APNS, NPS, clinic nurse specialists, certified
nurse midwives and certified registered nurse anesthetists. spread into units (intensive, burn,
cardiac)
what are the purposes of understanding your personality type as well as others - Answer
looking for insight into which careers you might be good at, you would like to insight into your
strengths snd weaknesses, want to achieve more and be more successful, be happier, know how
to sell to others, be more persuasive, better relationships, get along with others better
describe Flourence Nightengale - Answer MOTHER of modern nursing, 1st nursing researcher,
improved supplies and sanitation, Crimean war reduced mortality rates from infections not
wounds, founded St. Thomas hospital (London) which is the model for nursing education in the
U.S.
describe Mary Seacole - Answer Jamaican nurse and business woman, "great black briton",
was declined to work with nightingale in Crimean war due to her ethnicity, expert of cholera
describe Clara Barton - Answer battlefield angel, founded the Red Cross, worked previously as
a copyist
, describe Louisa May Alcott - Answer was a nurse and wrote about it; author of Little Women
describe Mary E. Mahoney - Answer 1st african american to graduate from nursing school
from new england hospital for women and children
describe Mary Ann Bickerdyke - Answer "mother;" traveling care for soldiers + 300 field
hospitals
describe Lillian Wald - Answer mother of public health nursing, founded Henry Street
Settlement
describe Mary Breckenridge - Answer mother of midwife nursing
discuss how the nursing profession has evolved - Answer social, political, and economic
changes in the world throughout the last 200 years. technological advances and theoretical
shifts
describe how the public sees nurses - Answer very trusted profession. #1 in honesty and
profession every year
identify ways in which students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing - Answer
advocate for a safe and healthy work environment, problem solving by identifying issues,
improve communication between coworkers and patients; take more proactive roles in
establishing an ongoing dialogue, beat stereotypes, and spread the truth about nursing (it isn't
just about doctors)
describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how those effect patient outcomes -
Answer 1) Increase the supply of nurses (import nurses; travel nurses)
2) create less-trained workers to supplement nurses (CNA, diplomas and associates in 50s)
identify social and demographic factors that influence the development of nursing in the U.S. -
Answer Gender, technology, population trends, image, and the nursing shortage
Pre-reading and benefits? - Answer 70% of material covered by professors; takes 10-15 min
night BEFORE class. improve understanding and retention of information; familiarization
Questions And Actual Detailed Answers.
describe the importance of improving academic skills for aspiring nurses - Answer Improving
academic skills allows for nurses to reduce stress, read efficiently, critically think, create
organized notes, and recall and apply information for exams and clinical use
understand the benefits of reflective journaling in learning - Answer reflective learning allows
you to summarize what you learned, how you could improve for net time, and if you will change
your study habits in the future
identify scheduling techniques to aid in time management - Answer create a workable
schedule. Allow 1 to 2 hours of study for each hour of lecture. for online courses, plan study
time. take exercise and refreshing breaks after certain period of studying. plan for the
unexpected and take time out for R&R to study if needed
recognize the wide range of settings and roles in which todays registered nurses practice,
including advanced practice nursing roles - Answer hospital, facilities, clinics, homes, schools,
hospice homes, private practice, nursing homes, APNS, NPS, clinic nurse specialists, certified
nurse midwives and certified registered nurse anesthetists. spread into units (intensive, burn,
cardiac)
what are the purposes of understanding your personality type as well as others - Answer
looking for insight into which careers you might be good at, you would like to insight into your
strengths snd weaknesses, want to achieve more and be more successful, be happier, know how
to sell to others, be more persuasive, better relationships, get along with others better
describe Flourence Nightengale - Answer MOTHER of modern nursing, 1st nursing researcher,
improved supplies and sanitation, Crimean war reduced mortality rates from infections not
wounds, founded St. Thomas hospital (London) which is the model for nursing education in the
U.S.
describe Mary Seacole - Answer Jamaican nurse and business woman, "great black briton",
was declined to work with nightingale in Crimean war due to her ethnicity, expert of cholera
describe Clara Barton - Answer battlefield angel, founded the Red Cross, worked previously as
a copyist
, describe Louisa May Alcott - Answer was a nurse and wrote about it; author of Little Women
describe Mary E. Mahoney - Answer 1st african american to graduate from nursing school
from new england hospital for women and children
describe Mary Ann Bickerdyke - Answer "mother;" traveling care for soldiers + 300 field
hospitals
describe Lillian Wald - Answer mother of public health nursing, founded Henry Street
Settlement
describe Mary Breckenridge - Answer mother of midwife nursing
discuss how the nursing profession has evolved - Answer social, political, and economic
changes in the world throughout the last 200 years. technological advances and theoretical
shifts
describe how the public sees nurses - Answer very trusted profession. #1 in honesty and
profession every year
identify ways in which students and nurses can promote the profession of nursing - Answer
advocate for a safe and healthy work environment, problem solving by identifying issues,
improve communication between coworkers and patients; take more proactive roles in
establishing an ongoing dialogue, beat stereotypes, and spread the truth about nursing (it isn't
just about doctors)
describe how nursing has reacted to nursing shortages and how those effect patient outcomes -
Answer 1) Increase the supply of nurses (import nurses; travel nurses)
2) create less-trained workers to supplement nurses (CNA, diplomas and associates in 50s)
identify social and demographic factors that influence the development of nursing in the U.S. -
Answer Gender, technology, population trends, image, and the nursing shortage
Pre-reading and benefits? - Answer 70% of material covered by professors; takes 10-15 min
night BEFORE class. improve understanding and retention of information; familiarization
